Skull & Roses 50: Side C
GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST
Grateful Dead
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🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Skull & Roses 50: Side C
After special guest Judy Collins joins us to untangle the surprising origins of the Dead’s most-performed song, “Me & My Uncle,” the Deadcast wades into the oversold 3-night April 1971 Dance Marathon that became part of “Skull & Roses,” guided by tour manager Sam Cutler and friends.
GUESTS: Judy Collins, Sam Cutler, Candace Brightman, Sally Mann Romano, Rick Turner, Gary Lambert, Blair Jackson
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| 0:00.0 | The Good Old Grateful Deadcast, the official podcast of the Grateful Dead. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Rich Mayhan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of the Grateful Dead |
| 0:14.6 | for the committed and the curious. |
| 0:18.4 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Good Old Grateful Deadcast. |
| 0:22.2 | This is Episode 3 of Season 3, and we are on to Side C in our exploration of the Grateful |
| 0:28.8 | Dead's 1971 live release, Skull and Roses, new episodes right here every other week. |
| 0:36.8 | Visit us at our website, dead.net slash deadcast, and check out the extra materials we have for you |
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| 1:04.8 | than you realize. You probably have heard that this is the 50th anniversary of the Dead's live |
| 1:10.7 | double album from 1971, Skull and Roses. There is an expanded anniversary edition of Skull and Roses |
| 1:17.8 | coming on June 25th that includes more than an hour of unreleased music from the Dead's final |
| 1:24.0 | Fillmore West Show on July 2nd, 1971. Several configurations are available including a |
| 1:31.6 | two LP set, a two CD set, and it will of course be available on your favorite streaming platform. |
| 1:38.0 | Preorders are open now at dead.net. Well here on Side C we have a quartet of covers that the boys |
| 1:46.0 | love to play. A few racking up plays of several hundred each. We'll pull the covers back on me and |
| 1:52.5 | my uncle, Big Boss Man, me and Bobby McGee, and the prototypical rocker Johnny Be Good. |
| 1:59.9 | We also had a last minute guest drop by and give us some witness testimony. We're thrilled to |
| 2:05.2 | bring you legendary folk artist Judy Collins. Climb up in the saddle. Let's head off towards our |
| 2:11.7 | first stop with tour guide Jesse Jarno. |
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